@Prit1: These options are really terrific!! I never would've given it a second thought that wbar could've done all these fabulous things until I read the above post by you and then saw your fantastic screenie in the screenshot thread. Truly remarkable!

Thanks so very much for posting all of the above per my request in the other thread---I really appreciate this more than you'll ever know. I've been really thankful for having wbar as it's made my computer work a lot easier for me. Now with these settings? Far more stunning as well.

In all of my "starticewm" files (I have 5 distros installed and use IceWM on each) in "/usr/bin" I have the following line now placed in the coding:

Code:

sleep 1 ; wbar -above-desk -bpress -balfa 0 &

...and wbar starts up just fine. You may want to add the "-pos top" parameter in there somewhere though if you want wbar on top. I run mine on the bottom as I have a "fake gnome-look" to my IceWM in most cases.

Depending upon your processor speed as well you may want to change the "sleep" parameter to make it either 2 or 3, depending upon whether wbar gives you just an iconic menu, or comes up in a windowed background. You'll see what I mean I think.

I start wbar this way in about all of my window managers or desktop environments (I run a lot of different ones), along with a lot of other programmes that run for me in the background, like conky, numlockx, ROX pinboard/desktop (when outside of Puppy), etc.

Now in Puppy, unlike most other distros which install and use JWM, Barry has placed the window manager in "/usr/X11R7/bin/" it would seem (someone correct me if I'm wrong, please?), so it would be a case of going in there and making a simplified "startjwm" file which points to JWM which holds all these start up commands that you have.

If you do this, however, then you'd have to remember that the way to restart JWM would no longer be "xwin JWM" but instead "xwin startjwm", see what I mean Prit1?

So someone else here must have an easier way as I'm known for taking the "most unconventional route" whenever I do something. But then and again, I work with a lot of other distros besides Puppy which I fix over for my own use as well and this is basically how I have the "startjwm" on my other distros.

Sorry if I'm now not much help and have compounded and confused the issue.

Here Prit, this is an example (and for anyone else who's interested) of what I have in my "startjwm" file in Linux Mint Daryna 4.0. This file is found in "/usr/bin" and after being made is set to "executable" as it's a script file:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#File made by Eyes-Only as a hack to start screensaver, numberlock, and lefthanded mouse in Linux Mint.
#November 27, 2007

if [ -f /root/.xset.sh ];then
#this is created by /usr/bin/gxsetshell...
eval "/root/.xset.sh"
fi

Sorry it took me a bit to reply here as I was off in another section and forgot I had email Prit.

It's been awhile since I've used JWM so I'm trying to think... I've never used wbar in Puppy with JWM so I couldn't say, I only use it with IceWM, KDE, and Fluxbox in Puppy, sorry.

Seems so the last time I used it in Linux Mint I didn't get wbar showing on the taskbar---but I DID get conky showing there, which perplexed the life out of me because I have the taskbar setting turned off in the conky configuration file like Pizza showed a long time ago. But no, I don't seem to recall wbar showing in Linux Mint. Of course, we're comparing two different distros here, so just because it didn't show in Mint doesn't mean it shouldn't show in Puppy and need yet another way to be hidden, see what I mean? (Phew! My English is bad tonight I think!)

i installed a version from gslapt it comes with
very nice icons
it works fine and i put it into MU -autostart programm
the only thing i don't like that wbar starts before backgruond is set
so it has black background
is there a way to avoid this?_________________skype: desafimager

Please excuse my lack of Linux knowledge,but I would like to get the bar running on my machine and have not a clue on how to start it.I downloaded the tar and extracted it to my documents folder but have no idea of how to start the program! A walk through would be greatley appreciated.

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